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EC Ecodesign Working Plan for 2015 to 2017 comes into effect

2 January 2015, 10:05

Energy efficiency measures may impact on new smart connected device functionality.

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The Pirate Bay goes offline after Swedish police raid data-centre

10 December 2014, 11:05

But the website appeared back online late Tuesday, hosted in Costa Rica.

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Samsung said to be working on its own GPU designs

3 December 2014, 09:35

Issues with the Nvidia legal team accelerated the chip development.

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Sony explores North Korean link in recent hacking incident

1 December 2014, 11:05

A bevy of its film studio's unreleased movies leak online following the hack.

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European MPs pass motion calling for Google break up

28 November 2014, 11:35

Google's search and other services should be separated to prevent abuse say MEPs.

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EFF fights for right of users to revive abandoned video games

5 November 2014, 13:08

Organisation has filed new DMCA exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office.

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Intel paying Pentium 4 customers US$15 in compensation

3 November 2014, 10:05

It allegedly manipulated benchmark scores of the first-gen P4 processors 14 years ago.

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Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega's Activision lawsuit is dismissed

29 October 2014, 12:05

"Absurd lawsuit" concerning Call of Duty royalties was tossed out.

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Europol: someone will be murdered via the IoT by 2015

6 October 2014, 12:05

Hackers expected to cause "possible deaths" by targeting safety equipment.

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ASUS may sue motherboard competitors over OC Socket tech

18 September 2014, 09:45

Legal finger expected to point at ASRock, MSI and Gigabyte.

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Nvidia sues Qualcomm and Samsung over graphics patents

5 September 2014, 12:15

Nvidia wants sales of the latest Samsung Galaxy devices blocked.

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Microsoft rejects warrant to turn over emails stored overseas

1 September 2014, 11:00

Redmond is taking a stand in US courts as it appeals ruling.

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Valve hit by legal action in Australia over Steam refunds

29 August 2014, 10:30

The ACCC is suing the gaming company for misleading consumer guarantees.

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Fake Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 cards sold by German retailers

29 August 2014, 09:45

What you get is a GeForce GT 440 with modified video BIOS information.

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Media format shifting legalised in the UK, but don't touch the DRM

31 July 2014, 11:00

The rule change first proposed in 2006 was supposed to come into force in June.

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Pirate Bay traffic doubles in face of widespread ISP ban

21 July 2014, 11:51

The website claims to have doubled its traffic since 2011 with the US being its largest source.

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EVGA takes down PrecisionX 15 after RivaTuner plagiarism claim

21 July 2014, 09:52

However EVGA still denies that any code was copied.

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Noriega sues Activision over Call of Duty character depiction

17 July 2014, 12:30

The imprisoned former dictator is suing Activision for portraying him as a murderer.

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US Police dog trained to sniff out hidden HDDs and memory cards

8 July 2014, 11:45

A Labrador named Thoreau has uncovered storage devices containing child porn.

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Intel's appeal over €1.06 billion EU court fine is rejected

13 June 2014, 13:45

The fine was levied back in 2009 for abuse of market dominance.

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Kim Dotcom will offer $5 million to a helpful whistleblower

9 June 2014, 11:59

Gives advice to the whistleblower, about how to safely do the deed.

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Vodafone reveals government sponsored wiretapping activity

6 June 2014, 12:55

Government agencies have been monitoring and listening to live calls willy nilly.

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Valve's puts warning in an update to the Steam Early Access FAQ

5 June 2014, 12:45

The update warns that some games may never reach development completion.

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eBay hackers access 145 million records but PayPal isn't exposed

22 May 2014, 09:57

Auction giant asks all customers to change their passwords.

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Seller who threatened to sue customer is banned from Amazon

12 May 2014, 12:45

Mediabridge wanted to sue the Amazon shopper over a negative wireless router review.

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Oculus-Facebook deal: Carmack is accused of stealing technology

2 May 2014, 11:15

Also the Xbox head signals that Microsoft is about to dip its toe in the VR world.

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Copyright trolls lose extortion case against alleged pirates

30 April 2014, 11:15

Thousands of BitTorrent users who had downloaded the Far Cry movie were targeted.

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Google's updated terms of service details email scanning

15 April 2014, 12:15

A new paragraph openly explains that emails are analysed for tailored ads and more.

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HP pays $108 million to settle foreign bribery investigation

10 April 2014, 14:30

Subsidiaries in Russia, Poland and Mexico were accused of bribing government officials.

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Secrets revealed in documents from the Apple-Samsung trial

7 April 2014, 13:00

Documents hint the iPhone will grow in size as consumers want larger, cheaper devices.

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Google aims to trademark the word 'Glass'

5 April 2014, 21:50

However the U.S. trademark office has a couple of reasonable objections.

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Net neutrality law passed by the European Parliament

4 April 2014, 11:30

ISPs will be forced to treat all traffic the same, regardless of its source.

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Marvell fined $1.54 billion for wilfully infringing storage patents

1 April 2014, 16:15

Despite this news Marvell shares surge today, due to the removal of the uncertainty.

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